This news is in Star Magazine, so let’s hope it’s completely fabricated, but supposedly producers of the hit MTV reality show Jersey Shore are encouraging the female stars, namedly J-Wowww and Snooki, to get pregnant to help bring in ratings. These girls are partiers in their early 20s and if this is true it’s unconscionable. Star makes sh*t up wholesale though so this whole story could be wishful thinking. Supposedly producers are offering $500,000 for a pregnancy along with a follow-up starring reality show role. Snooki is supposedly on board and wants twins. These kids are only getting $10k an episode, so I’m thinking the half million figure for a baby is completely unrealistic. $50k maybe, not $500k.
Star has learned exclusively that producers are trying to entice one of the female stars [of Jersey Shore]… to get pregnant this time around.
“They’re offering a big bonus for a baby,” a source reveals to Star. In fact, the source says producers are prepared to cough up a half million dollars and a spin off series for the female cast member who agrees to get knocked up. And it looks like Snooki, 22, might be up for the challenge.
“I want twins,” the tiny Guidette… squealed in an exclusive NYC interview with Star. Along with her new boyfriend, a hunky bodybuilder named Emilio Masella who works as a personal trainer at Gold’s Gym in Connecticut, Snooki confessed, “We want a boy and a girl, fraternal twins. I think our kids will be so cute! But I don’t want to get married or anything until I’m like 26 or 27.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition, April 12, 2010]
So Snooki doesn’t want to get married until she’s older, but she’s ready to have two kids with the guy? Children are way more of a commitment than marriage. You can always get divorced, but you’ll probably have to deal with someone for the rest of your life if you have kids with them. I wouldn’t expect mental giant Snooki to get that, though.
Meanwhile US Weekly reports that J-Woww, 23, wants off Jersey shore. The baby issue could be part of it, but US doesn’t mention that at all. They quote a source in this week’s print edition who says “[J-Woww] doesn’t want to be on the show anymore. She cried her eyes out when she found out it was picked up again.” They add that she isn’t friends with the other cast members apart from Snooki. She’s also writing a “lifestyle guide” with her other co-star, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, titled Never Fall in Love at the Jersey Shore. The sub-title should be and always use Condoms. To put it very mildly – these kids should not be offered massive cash bonuses in exchange for bringing a child into the world when all they want to do is get drunk and hook up.
Oh please let this be false. No one should encourage any of those tools to reproduce.
Okay, I know how tiny “Snooki” is… so that means that her boy toy is also SUPER tiny!! He is barely taller than her!
Huh? I mean what do you say to that?
I think what Star did is take an excerpt of an interview that she actually did with them and fill in some sensational nonsense.
I don’t think she means that she wants kids now. What she’s basically saying is that she wants kids but she doesn’t want to get married until she’s 26 or 27 i.e. she won’t have kids until she’s married.
I haven’t watched MTV in years but I can say I will never watch again, nor will my kids. Someone really needs to bring back the idea of teaching class, manners, and self respect. No wonder the rest of the world hates us.
I agree Leek, the only thing i watch on MTV is 16 and Pregnant, which i thought was going to totally disgust me, but i really details how having children too young isnt just a game, and its hard and the guy is never who you expect him to be, and you can abuse your parents when theyre helping you, and people will look at you differently, and all sorts of things that girls arent understanding nowadays becuase their friends are glorifying the fact that they have kids when really, misery loves company.
Its an awesome show, and if i wasnt already pregnant, i sure wouldnt have gotten here lol.
And this is what we have come to…not bringing babies into the world out of love, but out of the need to grab extra ratings.
@ Leek –
I couldn’t agree with your last sentence more. People wonder why the rest of the developed world looks at us like a piece of gum (or worse) stuck to the bottom of their shoe. Look at our country’s TV programming, our government, the way our country acts like no other country can hold a candle to our awesomeness, and it’s really not that hard to figure out.
As far as the validity of this story, I highly doubt it, but with MTV you never know. I do know this: the last thing ANY of the self-centered idiots on ANY MTV show need is to breed. Heaven help us if they do.
Yeah, great idea. The world needs a few more kids born with fetal alcohol syndrome. Remeber when MTV played MUSIC? How far they have fallen since my teen years when they were cool.
@ Naye –
I, too, watch 16 and Pregnant (the only thing I watch on MTV), and the thing that consistently floors me is that not a single one of the pregnant girls used protection. Just once, I’d like them to feature someone who says “yeah, the condom broke” or “I must be in that 2 percent it didn’t work for” or “yeah, antibiotics really CAN render birth control pills useless”, you know? And I hope you have a healthy baby.
Getting knocked up landed Kwhatsername Kardashian on the cover of those magazines almost weekly during her pregnancy and she probably made some cash out of it too so why not the Jersey Shore cast?
We are doomed.
@leek & bellaluna: Really? You think the rest of the world doesn’t have trashy programming, classless, clueless money grabbing celebrities and TV? The only country with a bad government? You need to go oversees as silent observers. Everyone has these types of people. And if everyone else hated it, they could reject it. But they don’t. This is pop culture; its essential to all western cultures, not just us.
And we had have classy intelligent people to represent us, they just don’t get the same air time.
@bellaluna
I agree that nobody i know (with the exception of my mother who had five of us on various forms of failed BC over a span of 20 years) got pregnant under the age of 25 while on some form of BC. Thats how im where i am but i’m 21 and have been with the babys father for two years, and looked at it as, i made the decision to be this irresponsible, now its time for me to actually be responsible. And right now i can handle this with a little extra elbow grease, but at 16 and 17 there is no way i could have done it, and my parents wouldnt have been going out of their way to help me (they always said ” well i hope he marries you”).
Thats what amazed me was a lot of these girls went right back to being teenagers and going out with their friends and leaving the baby at home for mom to watch. That girl Farrah even had a boy spending the night and i was like “and you dont think this was the problem to begin with?”
i was terrified of coming home pregnant when i was 16 becasue i knew for a fact that my parents would lend their support but they wouldnt be doing anything extra to get me to prom or HomeComing or my senior trip or even through school having made such a reckless decision as to not use protection and get pregnant. I started having sex fairly young but this has been the only relationship where BC was not used. I thinks these girls today need the fear of God put in them and i think the show is helping to do that.
That girl SAM the other night who was screaming bcuz the baby was on her spine, had me horrified. I want a water birth. And thank you thats all i want is for my baby to be healthy.
Who are these non people.
Have we sunk so low as to give a show to any old tom!!!!!!!!!!
God no wonder I only own one tv and barely watch anything on it.
You could die of boredom watching shit like these people.
I’m off to read a book, at least a book is entertaining.
Oi: “Essential” is too strong of a word. But I get your point. Pop culture is a part of Western societies but the current pop culture is in desperate need of change. Although if the majority of the people truly believed it (not just say “The Jersey Shore cast is so trashy and the show is one of the lowest forms of entertainment” but don’t miss an episode) it would change. MTV is giving the people what they want.
I think it is a great idea, there are not enough poorly raised kids out there. Plus, they will teach their children early fame and money are more important than anything else. Creating more vapid, fame whoring, self absorbed brats.
Really, why have a baby unless it is going to help the ratings?
@ Naye,
I totally understand where you are right now. When I got pregnant at 19 (with my oldest), I was on antibiotics and they messed up my BC pills. That was before they knew antibiotics did that! I, too, had been with my son’s father for 2+ years, had graduated from high school, and worked full time right up until my due date. My mom informed me she wasn’t going to be my built-in babysitter, so I’d darn well better kiss my social life goodbye and be a good mother to my son. My parents also let me know I needed to find my own place and take care of my son, as he was my baby, not theirs. I, too, started having sex at a young age (16) but I always used protection and insisted my boyfriend wore a condom.
As far as labour, if you don’t choose to use drugs, try the Bradley Method. It teaches deep breathing, and worked much better for me than Lamaze. (I used Lamaze with my son, Bradley with my daughter, and I had to have an ER C-section with my baby boy.) You can also get on your hands and knees and arch your back – that helps with back labour, too. Don’t worry honey, you will be fine.
Just a clarification – Snookie is not Italian, therefore not a “guidette” as she claims. She was adopted by an Italian family but I read she is Mexican/Chilean.
I wish there was some way for this show to show some responsibility like stop condoning unprotected drunken sex with total strangers but that’s probably not on their agenda. The people on the show are caricatures and don’t realize how absurd they look/act.
That said, I am glad Snooki has found a boyfriend – they look “good together”, for what it’s worth.
I’m sorry, but I doubt either story is true… like you said, these kids are doing the show for only $10k, so why would MTV offer a whopping half mil just for a pregnancy? Furthermore, if J-Woww was so upset about it getting picked up for another season, she didn’t have to come back… as I remember, they were pretty willing to replace whoever wasn’t willing to do the show for such a measly paycheck.
“Someone really needs to bring back the idea of teaching class, manners, and self respect.”
It depends how you look at it, because a parent can easily teach those things by example and use the (overly abundant) supply of crap on television as an example of how NOT to act.
And this story is absurd.
10k and episode? Holy crap! Where do I sign my soul away…:)
at least Jenni still has to wear shit from Urban Outfitters like the rest of us. I, shamefully, have the same tank she’s wearing in the 2nd to last picture. she has the tackiest, grossest style ever.
That’s kind of like selling your soul to the devil D:
There’s no value for self respect!!!
Oi– I never claimed other countries didn’t have trashy programming, I’ve been to Europe and know that’s not the case. My feeling is that here in the United States the obsession with celebrity is taking its toll on society.
I am so desensitized to the point where if you show me a woman who slept with Jesse or Tiger and didn’t call the press to let them know then I would say she’s a class act. Haha…
@Naye:
Keep your chin up. You will be fine because you’ve got a head on your shoulders and aren’t walking blindly into this like some idiots do, thinking its all shower presents and cuddles. You are nervous and that is GOOD. It shows you are serious.
Many of us find ourselves in this situation; you are not the first. Keep that head in the right place and you can come out of this with a husband, a family, a home and a beautiful life- it IS possible. It will not be easy. But all is not lost.
From the way you have presented yourself in writing, I have faith in you. Best of luck, always.
end is near… jersey shore guidettes having little ones.
2012?
Agree w/ Leek and Bellaluna. The media/public focus on bottom feeders has reached depressing lows and continues to sink. I’ve lived in 3 countries and can honestly say it’s worse here than in other first world nations. The UK would be a close second. Yay! We’re #1!
oh pls.. no…….. they will only produce gnomes. and that lips- horrible. looks like chicken a-hole. eww!
As many ‘accidents’ Ive had in my 28 years, Ive yet to be knocked up. I am sure there is something wrong with me. I am jealous that they can have kids. And for a big paycheck. Ugh.
First of all if snooki had kids i dont think she wouldnt survie through birth! shes only like 4 foot 8!!! Her bf is short too!!! hes only like an inch taller than her!!!! think how short thir kids would bee!!!!!!! And wat if their kids were premature (lol) they would be soooooo short!!!!They wuld grow to be like 4 foot!!!!!!! and ya know how ya “shrink” when u get older!? well wen snooki shrinks, like how short is she gunna be then like 3 foot!!!!!!!???!!!!!
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